again, from a total beginner point of view, i'm now working my way thru the "deployment" page:
http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-7.0-doc/appdev/deployment.html and there's something that i think would have been spectacularly handy to have had in the installed tomcat 7 bundle. as it is, the bundle comes with sample webapps (both jsp and servlet format), and while that's great to be able to see some apps in action, it can actually get in the way for someone who simply wants to know how to write and deploy their *first* app. as a beginner, if i wanted to set up my first tomcat server, the first thing i'd want to know is what a totally *empty* server looks like. as in, what are the initial contents of the webapps/ directory if i have *no* apps deployed? that's not at all obvious since it's already filled with cool apps, but that just makes it more difficult to know what tomcat would look like *without* anything deployed. from my perspective, it would have been useful to have a few more sample directories at that level, such as: webapps/ what's already there, just leave where it is noapps/ the layout when nothing is deployed yet servletapp/ what a *single* servlet app looks like deployed jspapp/ what a *single* jsp app looks like deployed as i read it, i can change which directory is used as the basis for tomcat apps just by changing the value of "appBase" in conf/server.xml: <Host name="localhost" appBase="webapps" unpackWARs="true" autoDeploy="true"> at which point, it would have taken literally seconds to see how to deploy my first app by running: $ diff -r noapps servletapp that's it -- with one command, i see everything that needs to be added to a new tomcat deployment for my first servlet app. i'm still reading the deployment page so i'm sure i'll figure it out in short order, but any chance of something like that being added? rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ======================================================================== --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
